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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Family Trees

I have been working on mine and Ian's family tree for over a year now - its been an amazing and frustrating process but enjoyable none the less.

I've worked with My Heritage and Ancestry - my heritage is good for adding photos and looking pretty but Ancestry win simply for shear amount of search-able information.

That picture is of a 8ft by 4 ft chart of direct ancestors for Ian's folks - all the way back to 1740 and some beyond...

I have had to restrict my looking to just major ancestors as otherwise it would be huge with all the children of people but even with that I have nearly a 1000 people between the two families. It's been a steep learning curve and a lot of family tree madness to sort out - 6 generations of Bob Sheader with brothers called Walter doesn't help matters, neither does census people have spelling issues...

I would recommend it to everyone :)

and if you are lucky, there will be other relatives on there who have photographs and information they are willing to share - like this awesome wedding photograph of Ian's Great Grandparents in 1913.